Download Link of Title Track - Sai Tere Hazaaron Naam...

This is the title track of the album SAI TERE HAZAARON NAAM. It is placed in the sixth position of the cd cover, but it was the last bhajan which was composed. Additions were made to it at the last moment and also it was the last one to be recorded. Again video of this bhajan has been made and I have placed the link in this post also, although it is already available on the main page of the blog.

After all the seven tracks were ready, I wished to make a bhajan which sounded like kavvalii or a dhun. I love kavvalii 'Shirdiwale Sai Baba' from the movie 'Amar Akhbar Anthony' and I thought of making something on the same base. I was not able to decide what exactly Shirdi Sai Baba wanted me to do. Then one day, after recording of the bhajans was over, myself and Vikram Nagi (music director) were returning from Chandigarh to Ambala. I was driving and we both were thinking about the bhajan. Few words like 'Koi Allah Kahe Koi Ram' came cropping up in my mind. After that few more words wondered in my mind and I quickly composed line 'Kuraan Mein Bhi Ho Tum Sai Gita Mein Bhi Ho Tum Sai Bible Mein Bhi Ho Tum Sai Gurubani Mein Bhi Tum Sai'. Hearing me, Vikram said, Bhaiya this is perfect, we can go with it. But I said, No something is missing here and it seems to be incomplete. I want to add something else too. There was much traffic on the way and it was about 10 o'clock at night. While we were waiting for the railway crossing to open, the words 'Teri Shirdi Sai Paavan Dhaam' struck my mind and finally the whole beginning of the final bhajan was composed.

At night after reaching Ambala, I wrote all the three verses and presumed that bhajan was now complete. Vikram was awake and I made him listen too. He said that it was perfect. At about 11 o'clock, we watched the news of train bomb blasts of Bombay. Before sleeping I was thinking about the bomb blasts and was talking to Shirdi Sai Baba about the happening. In fact I was quiet disturbed after the news came to my ears. I asked Shirdi Sai Baba that why such things are happening when He was there for all of us. I was thinking in this way and went to sleep. At about 3 o'clock in the early morning, I woke up and wrote the four verse which signifies brotherhood between Hindus and Muslims. I wanted to convey Baba's message through this bhajan to treat every God as one and follow the mantra given by Sai Baba "Sabka Malik Ek". In this way, the title bhajan was made overnight with four verses and was recorded the very next day.

Though seven bhajans were already recorded, the title of the album was not fixed. I had a desire to name it as 'Apna Banaya Sai Ne', but after recording this particular bhajan, my views changed and I decided to go for the title SAI TERE HAZAARON NAAM, which has now became my identity. Even I was to shoot the video of the first track i.e. Dar Dar Main To Bhatak Raha Tha (which is not only a bhajan but a true story of mine). But it is very clear to me now that Shirdi Sai Baba had a very deep intension behind making of this bhajan. In the end I would just say Ek Hi Malik Hamare Sainath, Sainath, Sainath, Sai Tere Hazaaron Naam Koi Allah Kahe Koi Ram...........Jai Sai Ram